{"id":12137,"date":"2011-05-04T20:05:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T03:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/04\/sepahan-1-1-al-hilal\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T20:05:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T03:05:37","slug":"sepahan-1-1-al-hilal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/04\/sepahan-1-1-al-hilal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan 1-1 Al Hilal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"navidkia-farwell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/navidkia-farwell.jpg\" height=\"254\" width=\"366\" \/>AFC &#8211; ESFAHAN, <strong>Sepahan were held to a 1-1 draw by Saudi Arabian side Al Hilal at Foolad  Shahr Stadium in Esfahan on Wednesday, a result that sees the Iranians  qualify for the last 16 of the AFC Champions League.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Abdullah Al Dossary had given Al Hilal the lead just a minute  into the second-half but Moharram Navidkia equalised eight minutes  later.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides now have 10 points with Al Gharafa in third on  seven following their comprehensive victory over Al Jazira in Doha.  Sepahan, though, have a superior head-to-head record over both Al Hilal  and the Qataris.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan\u2019s Senegalese striker Ibrahima Toure had  one of the best efforts of the first-half early in the game when he  collected a long pass from Navidkia, but his right-foot shoot was easily  defended by Al Hilal goalkeeper Hasan Al Otaibi.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes  later, Navidkia set up Toure to get off a shot from just outside the box  but his effort was turned away by Al Otaibi. <\/p>\n<p>Sepahan appealed  for a penalty in the 36th minute when Toure felt he had been brought  down in the box but the referee waved away their protests.<\/p>\n<p>And  two minutes later Toure only had himself to blame for not breaking the  deadlock, shooting straight at Al Otaibi from close range.<\/p>\n<p>Toure  was still keen to put himself in good positions but missed another  chance and saw team-mate Reza Enayati do the same before the half-time  whistle.<\/p>\n<p>The deadlock was quickly broken in the second-half when  Al Dossary beat defender Jalal Hosseini after collecting a cross from  the right before firing into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p>However, the visitors\u2019 lead did not last long with the impressive Navidkia equalising less than 10 minutes later. <\/p>\n<p>Enayati and Toure combined well to set up Navidkia in the area and he calmly found the back of the net to level the scores.<\/p>\n<p>Toure  and Enayati had further chances as the half wore on, but neither were  able to find the target and give their side the victory their dominance  deserved as both settled for a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ESFAHAN, Sepahan were held to a 1-1 draw by Saudi Arabian side Al&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3025,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}